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Usage examples of stalwart.

Within a minute the stalwart Berry, despatched by the baronet to arrange everything for their comfort, had opened the door, and made his bow.

Having closed the only line of escape by the junction of Ian Hamilton and of Buller, the attention of six separate bodies of troops was concentrated upon the stalwart Freestaters.

A cunning sound In that wing-music held me: down I lay In amber shades of many a golden spray, Where looping low with languid arms the Vine In wreaths of ravishment did overtwine Her kneeling Live-Oak, thousand-fold to plight Herself unto her own true stalwart knight.

The Reverend Matthews had presided as vicar for more years than he cared to remember, and he deeply regretted the loss of a stalwart parishioner such as Mrs Wilkinson.

The media had a field day with the heroic postmistress, her valiant cat and gallant dog, as well as stalwart Officer Cooper, so cool under fire.

The stalwart princeling had carefully removed every jeweled badge from his trappings and, clad in plain, worn leather, with a basket-hilted rapier of common design, could presumably pass as a wandering mercenary warrior without question, at least under cursory inspection.

Halimeda Opper, a venerable and trustworthy Reversionist party stalwart who was a media production designer by profession.

He saw light field artillery in sandbagged em placed detachments, together with mortars in their redoubts an armed with RPG sockets, the mobile hand-held stalwarts of the guerrilla arsenal: All the troops he saw seemed to be cheerful and of high morale, well fed and equipped.

Perhaps some of these duties were alternatives, but it looks as though the villein needed stalwart sons and daughters to help him, making the holding essentially a family affair.

No longer did the strongly-built Bordj seem to Domini like a fort threatening the oncomer, but like a stalwart host welcoming him, a host who kept open house in this treeless desolation that yet had, for her, no feature that was desolate.

Many of the stalwart sons of Canada were temporarily residing in the United States at these times, and had exceptional opportunities of noticing the constant preparations that were being made by the Fenian plotters to invade the land of their birth.

Pure of heart and stalwart with honour, yet besieged within their own house by the foulest of masters.

His frame had the characteristic stalwart structure of the Israelitish bondman.

Then the stalwart fellow had given the stable boy a gold eagle and sent him to find some johnnycakes, instructing him to feed them to the star sorrel.

Maybe you stalwart Nebraskans have another term for it, but here in Maplesburg that constitutes sleeping with each other.